Activity |
Page |
Description |
Lesson Focus |
Core Curriculum Requirement |
| What Do Bullies Want? |
13 |
Word association exercise to explore the psychology of bullying. |
Bullying- Example of how cupidity influences our choices |
Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of effects of prejudice |
| The Spoiled Princess |
82 |
The story of a princess who was spoiled rotten and who made important changes in her outlook on life when she went to live with some country peasants |
Bullying- How snobbery and cupidity can lead to and one antidote for |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Personal Development: Identify indicators of physical and mental health; Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed healthy choices |
| Crazy Coote |
29 |
Story of an elderly lady chased from her home by some children and a discussion on the effects of gossip |
Bullying- How snobbery and gossip can lead to |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for self and others; Making Decisions: Evaluate consequences of decisions; Civic: Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of prejudice, and its effects on various groups |
| Pro & Con - Prob Solving |
51 |
Discussion activity using the pro/con method of analysis in making decisions. This particular discussion involves a child being harassed by others |
Bullying- Exercise in using 7C skills in solving a particular problem |
Personal Development: Demonstrate respect for themselves and others; Interact respectfully with others, including those with whom they have differences; Making Decisions: Evaluate consequences of decisions; |
| He's No Duck At All |
34 |
Hans Christian Anderson's story of "The Ugly Duckling" retold |
Bullying- How snobbery and false opinions can lead individuals to treat others unfairly |
Reading Comprehension: Connect plot, ideas and concepts to personal experience; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion; Evaluate consequences of decisions; Civic: Examine effects of prejudice, Discuss meaning of citizenship |
| The Dried Peas in Cinderella's Life |
134 |
A retelling of this fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| A Change of Heart |
138 |
A biographical sketch from the life of Mother Teresa in which she and her fellow sisters are threatened by a gang of students who misunderstand what the Nuns are doing in their hospital |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals History and Social Sciences: Recognize forces of unity and disunity; Examine meaning of citizenship; Civic; Demonstrate understanding of prejudice |
| Dick Wittington & Cat |
140 |
Retold from English fairy tale the story is about an orphan boy taken in by a kind man but abused by his house maid |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| Which is Best? |
141 |
Several dilemmas in which students discuss which course of action is best |
Bullying- Unflattering motivations for, destructive nature of, and dignity in overcoming |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express themselves effectively; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals |
| Raise the Child as Muslim |
62 |
Biographical sketch from the life of Mahatma Gandhi in which a distraught man confesses to killing a Muslim child and Ghandi's counsel to help the man find peace |
Prejudice- Destructive influences of and example of dignity and courage in facing |
Reading: Connect plot, ideas and concepts with personal experience; History: Discuss the nature of conflict; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice, and of its effects on various groups |
| Individual Differences - Mutual Needs |
133 |
Brainstorming activity in which students explore differences between people, their common needs in relation to those differences, and how these differences help them meet their common needs |
Prejudice- How understanding individual differences and common needs can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Personal Development: make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
| Blindfolded Games |
132 |
Different games to be played blindfolded followed by a discussion of the experience |
Prejudice- How understanding the challenges some people face can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice; Explore meaning of citizenship |
| One Handed Activity |
132 |
Several activities which students are required to perform with one hand behind their back |
Prejudice- How understanding the challenges some people face can help a person overcome prejudice |
Communication: Listen actively and respond to communications; Use verbal skills to express self effectively; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and well being of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice; Explore meaning of citizenship |
| Crayons, Colors, People |
126 |
Coloring activity in which students explore how individual differences add beauty, variety, and interest to life |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Art: Use elements and principles of color; Reasoning & Problem solving: Students use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| What If? |
126 |
Students utilize several mediums - stories, plays, papers, pictures to explore answers to several "What If?" questions concerning how people are different and how these differences are mutually beneficial |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Communication: Establish connections between text and dialogue in several different communication mediums; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| The Pencil & Paper |
127 |
A dialogue (in verse) between a pencil and a piece of paper in which they decide their differences are so great they have no use for each other |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups |
| Mother Nature Changes Her Mind |
127 |
Group activity in which students, after listening to a short story in which mother nature complains that she needs to simplify her life, have to decide which creatures they think mother nature should keep and those she should get rid of, or whether they should try to persuade her to change her mind |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups |
| Likeness Montage |
131 |
Small group activity for students to collect pictures of people in different cultures and places who are involved in activities necessary to meet common needs and organize the pictures into a large wall montage |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudice |
Art: Convey artistic intent from creator to viewer; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups, Explore meaning of citizenship |
| Four Things All People Need |
130 |
Puzzle solving activity in which students identify four ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Likeness Pantomime |
131 |
Pantomime game in which students act out different ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Reasoning & Problem Solving: Respond to information based on experience, apply prior knowledge, curiosity, imagination, etc. to solve a problem; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| Likeness Art Project |
131 |
Group art and discussion activity in which students explore ways in which all people are equal |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Art: Convey artistic intent from creator to viewer; Reasoning & Problem Solving: Use reasoning processes to solve problems; Personal Development: Demonstrate understanding necessary to make informed, healthy choices that positively affect the health and wellbeing of themselves and others; Civic; Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on various groups; Examine meaning of citizenship |
| The Orphanage of Madam Ngai |
142 |
Story of a widow who started an orphanage to care for abandoned and orphaned children resulting from a civil war in Vietnam, how the orphanage grew to over 1000 children in spite of incredible adversity |
Prejudice- Destructive nature of and courage and dignity in overcoming |
Reading Comprehension: Establish connection between text and personal experience; Personal Development: Healthy Choices: Demonstrate an awareness of personal responsibility for achieving and setting goals History and Social Sciences: Recognize forces of unity and disunity; Examine meaning of citizenship; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of prejudice and its effects on different groups |
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Activity |
Page |
Description |
Lesson Focus |
Core Curriculum Requirement |
| The Martyrdom of Andy Drake |
34 |
True story of a man who through out his life experienced a "thousand maddening reruns" of an incident in which he and his friends mistreated a young boy who often played with them
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Bullying- Undesirable effect of bullying on both bully and victim |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion, evaluate the consequences of each |
| He Stole My Lunch |
134 |
Story of a class who set their own rules and a boy who offered to take a switching for another boy who had stolen his lunch |
Bullying- How understanding someone else's needs can influence |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Personal Development: Differentiate between decisions based on fact and those based on opinion, evaluate the consequences of each |
| Last of the Human Freedoms |
96 |
From Viktor Frank's book "Man's Search for Meaning" in which recounts his experience in a concentration camp and his observation that a man may be stripped of everything but the ability to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance |
Bullying- Example of the destructive influence of prejudice and how attitudes are controlled by internal not external factors |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze conflicts and conflict resolution |
| Lunatics Don't Feel Cold |
138 |
Biographical sketch of Dorthea Dix, a retired school teacher who became a social reformer working for the rights of individuals with mental disabilities when she learned of their cruel and inhuman treatment in a prison she visited |
Bullying- Example of the destructive influence of prejudice and the courage required to resist |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Evaluate the impact of social choices |
| July 13 |
140 |
A biographical sketch of Fritz Grabe, a man who risked his life to save Jews from a "pogrom" by a squad of SS Troops |
Bullying- Example of the destructive influence of prejudice and the courage required to resist |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze conflicts and conflict resolution |
| Respect is Like |
135 |
Brainstorming activity in which students associate with the word respect with everyday physical phenomena |
Prejudice- How understanding nature can increase one's appreciation of others |
Active listening: Respond through discussion, writing, and art forms; Speaking: Use verbal skills to express oneself effectively; Writing: Connect ideas to life experience |
| What About Ryan |
27 |
A biographical sketch of the life of Ryan White, a young boy who contracted aids from a blood transfusion, and the unfortunate reactions of many in his community |
Prejudice- Destructive influences of and example of dignity and courage in facing |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Problem Solving: Use reasoning strategies, knowledge and common sense to solve complex problems; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups |
| Korczak's Orphans |
112 |
The account of a Jewish orphanage in Poland during WWII in which Dr. Korzak chose to stay with the children as they were sent to Treblinka, a German concentration camp |
Prejudice- Destructive influences of and example of dignity and courage in facing |
History: Evaluate the impact of social choices; Identify, contrast, and compare the political power of different groups; Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of prejudice and its effect on various groups |
| Return From Vietnam |
133 |
A tragic tory of a young man returning from Vietnam, wounded and disfigured, and his inability to cope with his parents attitude toward his condition |
Prejudice- How prejudice can be self-defeating |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Personal Development: Identify indicators of intellectual, physical, social, and mental health |
| The Montague's & The Capulets |
36 |
An excerpt from Romeo & Juliet in which the two lovers lives are destroyed by the blind prejudices of two families torn apart by some problem in the past no one remembers any longer |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people and leads to animosity |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups |
| The Jets & The Sharks |
37 |
A recounting of an incident in "West Side Story" in which Tony accidentally kills Bernardo - an examination of the self-destructive power of blind hatreds that smolder in conflicts between rival gangs |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people and leads to animosity |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups |
| What Do These Groups Have in Common? |
38 |
An objective examination of the influence of "Polarizer" in dividing families, religions, and nations into hostile camps |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people and leads to animosity |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze the nature of conflicts and conflict resolution |
| Discrimination Activity |
39 |
An activity in which students are asked to examine the fairness of discrimination, tied to a brief recounting of a WWII Holocaust experience in Holland |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people and leads to animosity |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze the nature of conflicts and conflict resolution |
| We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident |
61 |
Excerpts from the Lincoln Douglas debates on the merits of slavery |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people and leads to animosity |
History and Social Sciences: Analyze the problems of majority rule and the protection of minority rights as written in the US Constitution; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups |
| Harriet Begins "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
136 |
Biographical sketch of Harriet Beecher Stowe, her self-doubts, the social mores that constrained her, and her motivation for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Prejudice- How prejudice polarizes people, destructive influence of |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze conflicts and conflict resolution |
| Empathy Activities |
127 |
Four activities designed to help young people appreciate the difficulties and recognize the achievements of those who don't have full use of their faculties through physical limitations imposed on them, either by nature or by others |
Prejudice- How understanding the challenges some people face can help a person overcome prejudices |
Personal Development: Perform effectively on teams, Problem Solving: Generate several ideas using a variety of approaches; Communication: Clearly articulate a point of view either orally or in writing |
| Differences Activities |
124 |
Three different activities designed to help young people appreciate that our differences are what enables us to meet our common needs and add variety and interest to life |
Prejudice- How understanding the differences between people can help a person overcome prejudices |
Personal Development: Perform effectively on teams, Problem Solving: Generate several ideas using a variety of approaches; Communication: Clearly articulate a point of view either orally or in writing |
| Likeness Activities |
126 |
Three activities designed to help young people appreciate how much every human being has in common and why it is in each of our interest to work together to meet our common needs |
Prejudice- How understanding the things all people have in common can help a person overcome prejudices |
Personal Development: Perform effectively on teams, Problem Solving: Generate several ideas using a variety of approaches; Communication: Clearly articulate a point of view either orally or in writing |
| Return from Ravensbruk |
130 |
Holocaust survivor Corrie TenBoom surveys the devastation experienced by Germans during WWII and reflects on the events in Holland which led to she, her sister and father becoming part of an underground effort to rescue Jews from the Germans, their capture and experiences in Ravensbruk, a German Concentration Camp and extermination center |
Prejudice- Disasterous effects of and example of courage and dignity in facing |
Reading Comprehension: Read for meaning; Demonstrate understanding, Explore connections between text and life experiences; Civic: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of prejudice and of its effects on various groups; History: Analyze conflicts and conflict resolution |
